By now everyone’s heard about the reports that a French prosecutor has alleged that copilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed a Germanwings A320 into an alpine mountain late Tuesday. Key word, of course, being “alleged,” because nothing has been determined for certain yet.

DERPPhotos were released today of the copilot who murdered 149 people on a Germanwings Airbus A320.

The copilot would not let the pilot back into the cockpit after he left to use the restroom.

28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz trained in the [sic] Phoenix, Arizona and is pictured here in San Francisco.

Somehow Hoft managed to refrain from automatically blaming the crash on Muslims, as he normally would — probably because he knew his knuckle-dragging readers would do it for him. And they responded like Pavlov’s dogs:

News of recent conversion to Islam in 3…2…

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the PC crowd will never ‘reveal’ his true ‘ties’

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another pilot “…trained in the US.” —
but- this was not a terrorist- attack -
NO-
islam is a religion of peace-
Right

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Andreas Lubitz, peace be upon him, is no more Islamic than the Sharpton is hustling.

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“Not known” just means he was smarter than the stupid (liberal) people running Germany.

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Time that we start testing every pilot before every flight. Hand them a bacon sandwiche and throw any that don’t eat it off the dam plane.

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Showing pix of him at San Francisco proves his communist leanings.

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This tragedy should be blamed on muslims anyway ! : without 9/11, and other arab/muslim “air terrorism” (highjacking etc), the cockpit door would have been normal (not reinforced etc) and it could have been opened by the locked out pilot/crew who then could have retaken control of the plane.

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Was he a Muzzie who changed his name or had converted recently?

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Photographed at a sodomite mecca.

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Could this be the new ingenious tactic the terrorists are using to down planes?

This crazed response isn’t unique to Jim Hoft’s hate site; if you look at comments on any right wing blog or media site today you’ll find similar Islamophobic rants. For example, from the story at Breitbart “News:”

Accommodations to Islamic pilots could allow them room for a prayer rug in the cockpit and allowing them to navigate towards Mecca for Prayer Time before readjusting heading for final destination.

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No Qu’rans allowed signs posted

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yelling Allah Akbar while downing a plane is so yesterday..

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The ACCELERATING demographics in Europe show that the ‘NO-GO’ areas of ISLAMIC CULTURE are GROWING and, as they MERGE, there will be FEWER and FEWER places to LAND.

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Does O-hole allow Muslims to pilot AF One?

It would be interesting to know, how many times AF One has been flown by a Muslim?

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I think andreas last thoughts went to Allah

At Breitbart there are thousands of comments like this. There’s a deep, deep sickness running amok in the right wing base.

“On the global warming alarmists, anyone who actually points to the evidence that disproves their apocalyptical claims, they don’t engage in reasoned debate,” Cruz said in an interview with reporter Jay Root on Tuesday. “What do they do? They scream, ‘You’re a denier.’ They brand you a heretic. Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.”

There’s so much ignorance in these few sentences it’s a bit amazing.

First, it was never “accepted scientific wisdom” that the Earth was flat. This was an unscientific viewpoint that came from the Bronze Age, and it was science that debunked it.

Second, Galileo wasn’t branded a heretic because he argued against a flat Earth; he argued against geocentrism, the idea that Earth was the center of the universe and everything else revolved around it. In Galileo’s time, a round Earth was already well established.

Third, scientists don’t “scream ‘You’re a denier!’” They point out with voluminous facts and evidence that climate change is real and it’s happening now, and conservatives like Ted Cruz ignore the facts and evidence. That’s why they’re called “deniers” — because they deny mountains of scientific evidence and an overwhelming consensus.

But Ted Cruz wasn’t the only top GOP politician being stupid about climate change today; our old friend Bobby “Don’t Be Stupid” Jindal put on his clown makeup too. The creationist Governor of Louisiana is upset because FEMA is planning to require states to deal with climate change in order to receive disaster relief funding: Jindal: WH Shouldn’t Use FEMA to Push Climate Change Ideology.

Bobby has decided to try to paint the science of climate change as a “left wing ideology,” because of course he is.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Tuesday slammed a new FEMA rule that could force states to recognize climate change in order to receive disaster preparedness funds.

“This preparation saves lives,” Jindal said in a statement to the Washington Times. “The White House should not use it for political leverage to force acquiescence to their left-wing ideology.”

It’s easy to mock these people, but what they’re doing borders on criminal behavior; they’re deliberately misleading the public to try to get us to ignore an existential threat against the entire human species. I try not to use this word in front page posts, but these people are the very definition of ignorant, lying assholes.

lostlakehikerre: #333 Shiplord Kirel There is a lot of evidence that the NV held back many of our POWs. (New Yorker magazine but it was a long time back and I forget which issue.) Plus, we weren't still at war ...

Folks, we haven’t written about the American Family Association’s resident Old Testament loon Bryan Fischer recently, because he’s like a broken record repeating the same idiotic hate speech over and over.

But today he posted a video that breaks new ground for him. Because in response to a call from a guy named “Jerry,” Fischer went on a rant about abortion in which he called outright for 56 or 57 million Americans to die and blood to run in the streets — to “balance the scales of God’s justice.”

I can’t embed the video, but you can click through if you want to check my transcription. This is absolutely beyond the pale even for the insane Bryan Fischer; he’s openly inciting violence and murder in the name of God, on a massive scale.

Caller: Well, this nation has murdered, what 52 million unborn babies?

Fischer: Yeah, 56 or 57 now, actually.

Caller: OK well then, the scales of justice are at a tremendous imbalance against the entire nation.

Fischer: That is correct.

Caller: And for an unrepentant nation to level the scales, 56 or 57 million lives will have to be shed to level the scales.

Fischer: Well, you know it is interesting that you would say that, Jerry, because that is a Biblical concept. You know, you go back to the Old Testament books and God talks about the fact that the shedding of innocent blood defiles the land. And the only thing that can atone for the shedding of innocent blood is the shedding of blood, there’s no other way to cleanse the land of the pollution of the shedding of that innocent blood.

You know and Abraham Lincoln referred to that in his second inaugural address when he said, “You know in God’s justice it may be that every drop of blood that was drawn by the sword is to repay a drop of blood that was drawn by the lash, that is of the slaveholder.” And he said it may be that this war is going to last until the scales are balanced, until every drop of blood drawn by the lash is repaid by another drawn with the sword.

So I agree with you Jerry, and you know Thomas Jefferson said about God that I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and his justice cannot sleep forever. And Jefferson was talking about slavery. He was talking about the shedding of innocent blood through human bondage, and that led to the Civil War. Thomas Jefferson could look down the corridor of history and say look, this is coming. It’s got to happen. God’s justice is not gonna overlook this forever.

And I agree with you Jerry, God’s justice cannot overlook the shedding of innocent blood through abortion forever. And what that’s gonna mean, ladies and gentlemen, it’s gonna mean exactly what Jerry’s talking about. It’s going to mean American blood in the streets. There is no other way that this thing can go. That’s what it’s gonna mean. American blood is going to have to be spilled on American soil to serve God’s justice for cleansing the land.

Saint StephenBryan Fischer is just giving us his version of what all right wingers feed their audience: drama and apocalyptic, extreme visions. After all, if they tried to use facts and logic, no Republicans would ever win an election again.

Lovely. Here’s video of Ted Cruz speaking in New Hampshire, spouting crazy apocalyptic rhetoric about the coming destruction of America and shouting, “The world is on fire!” — scaring a three-year old girl who timidly asks, “The whole world is on fire?”

To which Cruz replies, “The world is on fire, yes! [laughs] Your whole world is on fire! But you know what, your mommy’s here and everyone’s here to make sure that the world you grow up in is even better!”

…the only thing distinguishing Cruz’s line from something you or your three-year-old might hear in a stock Democratic speech about climate change is the hopeful note Cruz sounds at the end. Hopenchange will come and go but melting glaciers are forever. Put away the jumprope and start thinking about boat designs, Janie.

The difference, of course, is that climate change is a very real threat, not a loony right wing fantasy about Obama destroying America.

In all the years I’ve followed US politics I’ve never seen such blatant disrespect for the office of the President. The Republican Party is so deranged by their hatred of Obama — who was elected twice by the American people — that they’re actively working to damage the standing of the United States in the world. Anything goes as long as they can subvert everything Obama does. It’s sickening, and wrong, and is taking the country to a very bad place.

WASHINGTON — The White House delivered a fresh warning to the Senate late Saturday to stay out of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, asserting that pending legislation would likely have a “profoundly negative impact” on the ongoing talks.

President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, told Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker in a letter that legislation sponsored by the Tennessee Republican would go far beyond ensuring a role for Congress in any deal with Iran.

“Instead, the legislation would potentially prevent any deal from succeeding by suggesting that Congress must vote to ‘approve’ any deal,” McDonough said. He criticized a provision that would eliminate Obama’s authority to lift some sanctions on Iran as part of any agreement.

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One of the truly awful stories being completely ignored by our “left wing media” is how utterly debased and openly racist the comment sections on sites like Breitbart “News” have become. There’s absolutely no attempt by the owners of these sites to shut down the ranting lunatics or moderate their shocking bigotry. In fact, as I’ve argued many times, this seems to be the right wing media business model these days: to incite the most radical and unrestrained kinds of hate speech in order to keep the conservative base in a constant state of blind, unthinking rage.

With a title like that, you know where this is headed, and the commenters go right there. I’m hiding these quotes by default, because they’re sickening and not safe for work — or for human consumption, really. But this is what the right wing base looks like.

Sharpton, Holder, Jackson and Obama are four that should have been the ones to take a bullet before either of these cops!

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OK then, just have NO COPS and let the “Law of the Jungle” prevail. The Blacks are probably more accustomed to that anyway.

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Disgusting display of wild animals on the loose. If they hate it here so much they should just LEAVE. Go join the psychotic m_slimes and live like the feral beasts they are. They don’t belong in civilized society.

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It is time to start the race war…and it might as well be in Ferguson, MO. Maybe if the rioting black bastards (literally) saw 10,000 whites with weapons aimed at them, they would back down and go home…if not, stack their bodies like cord wood.

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There are two ways of handling this situation. Either abandon the good people of this area and hand it over to the animals or go in with overwhelming force and
exterminate the vermin. If it throws a rock or a bottle, shoot it. If it tries to burn down a building or throw a Molotov cocktail, shoot it. If it loots, shoot it. You don’t handle a dangerous situation by playing politics.

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I’m a takimag,amren, therightstuff guy. But, you don’t know what those are either do you?

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time to wall of the hood and take care of business………

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pray that the cops start unloading on these worthless pieces ofshit.

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Shame on you for using that slur.

The correct term is ‘Shitskin Americans’.

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Witness how blacks destroy societies.

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Filthy uncivilized mongrels.

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It’s time for America to rid itself from these useless eater’s.

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I say cut off all their EBT’s and let them starve in the hedge rows

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The ss would take care of this problem in no time.

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Turn Ferguson into the Gaza Strip. Pull law enforcement out, fence them in, and let them kill each other.

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It worked great, it was called Jim Crow and kept the Bantus in line and everyone was happier for it…including the Bantu.

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You sound like a Bantu…you must be proud to be in bed with apes.

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They need to evacuate any non-blacks who wish to leave Fergidishu and then let the Bantus have it, after setting up a perimeter to contain the cancer from metastasizing to other more civilized areas.

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All blacks need to be forced onto reservations, or sent back to Africa, their choice. They cannot be part of our society any longer, the experiment was a catastrophic failure.

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Don’t give me that crap. It’s all about genetics. They are unable to create societies like ours, they are also incapable of maintaining white culture. Africa is a sh1thole because of low IQ Africans. They are NOT like us, just read The Bell Curve. Watch them interact with one another.

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All WHITE OFFICERS please leave town and let the planet of the APES take over the Police Force…….in one years there will not be a FERGUSON.

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The mass chimp-outs have been happening in earnest since the 60’s, with
periods of relative calm in certain decades…but yes, the election of
this Marxist rabble rouser and his appointment of a black supremacist
has emboldened the plantation black. Its too late to correct the
problem now I think…Whites have been too complacent and our numbers
are dwindling to the point where we can’t turn this country around. The
nation has to be burned to the ground along with those who will burn
it, and only then can those Whites who survive rebuild it into what it
once was…after having learned some very painful lessons on race
reality.

Those are just from the first few pages; there are thousands like this, and many of them are rated highly by other commenters.

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The Republican presidential race is off to a smashing start, as one of the current frontrunners, creationist neurosurgeon Ben Carson, goes on CNN and says homosexuality is a choice. How does he know this? Because look at all those people who go into prison, and come out gay.

Oh brother.

“A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight and when they come out, they’re gay,” Carson said. “Did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.”

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What's this? Another article on Cracked about how incorrigibly tribal-minded us homo sapiens are? Well, yes. But the proverbial devil is in the proverbial details. Proverbially. It's still worth reading. That's what I'm getting at. Everyone is talking about Scientology ...

China attacks the biggest code repository in the world. After battling a distributed denial of service attack for four days, GitHub on Monday was able to restore normal service levels. The primary target of the assault is greatfire.org, which is ...

An American woman--presumably not Muslim, though she doesn't say one way or the other--married to a Libyan man is taken aback when her 9-year-old daughter suddenly wants to start wearing hijab. This is the story of how conflicted she felt ...

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Depending on the outcome of a hearing scheduled for Monday, a 33-year-old Indiana woman could face up to 70 years in prison for what she says was a miscarriage. Reproductive rights advocates say her case is a disturbing example ...

Spence Jackson, the chief spokesman for the late Missouri auditor Tom Schweich, died over the weekend from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Jefferson City police said Monday they responded to a call Sunday evening at Jackson's apartment. They found ...

On Friday, Motherboard reve​aled that fully functioning Uber accounts were for sale on the dark web. Today, it appears that some people have fallen victim to fraudulent trips being made with their login credentials. "It happened this morning," Phil ...

Are conservatives anti-science? Spoiler: Conservatives aren't anti-science or pro-science. But, they are pro-common-sense. And once more scientists adopt common sense approach to science, they'll find that they have the support of conservative politicians - the people whose job it is ...

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Here is an interesting article on one of Tail Gunner Joe's sick witch hunts that has, unfortunately, been forgotten. I try not to feel schadenfreude of the fate of McCarthy's side kick, Ray Cohn, but I never succeed.

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A short column in The Nation that is a must read. The primary difference between liberalism and conservatism, at least in theory, is that the latter is an ideology and the former isn't. Conservatism, as Milton Friedman argued, posits that ...

This is a powerful admission of culpability and I applaud his courage in making it. It really should be read in its entirety. Glenn Ford should be completely compensated to every extent possible because of the flaws of a system ...

Sarah Vine of the DM gets it wrong: SARAH VINE: Teaching 11-year-olds about rape is a form of child abuse The problem with this country, I've come to realise, is that it treats adults like children and children like adults. ...